Mat’s Comments

You mean like the USPS's 'app' which is basically a glorified web broswer wrapper for most of its functions?

That said, and I'm going to be very very blunt here, if using android 4.x or a rooted phone is in violation of terms with your payment provider, how the -bleep- do you manage to take payments over the web from a general computer that I, the end user, may or may not have root access to, and may have or have not granted any given program that level of access, at my whim?

the random slot asignment is needed anyway: It's already been proven that the higher your name is on the list, all things being equal, the more likely you are to get the vote. Though this leads to other issues, I suppose.

Actually it's a perfect comparison if you know the original full saying, which tells you to throw out the bad apples, to save the rest from going bad. And since we didn't throw them out when they first showed signs of going bad...

So in other words you want it so those who work from home, those who schedule their machines to download content (legal or otherwise) while they are out, and everyone who plays WoW (or a half dozen other modern games) that uses BitTorrent for its updater to be marked as a potential pirate? Oh, add in that Windows 10 now -also- by default can do bit-torrent like traffic for its updates... and telling me you can spot it just by the up down bandwidth usage ratio makes me just want to head-desk, and I do networking for a living. (While there are other ways to detect torrenting, this is not one of them... and anyone -using- that deep of packet inspection would be a terrific reason to start using a VPN because ye gods and little fishes a little privacy is nice!)

So how much of this could we halt by simple new rule of this: Only someone (corporation or otherwise) who helped fund the research that lead to the patent in the first place may buy a public institutions patents. Otherwise they either remain with the institution, or are placed into the public domain.

Also, in the case of this -specific- patent I counter with prior art: Winamp has been doing this for ripped CD files since the late 90s or so.

The problem is the do not show again does not keep it out of your search results, just off your front page, and I've managed to prove, with screen shots, that you can't get through the game pile faster than the game pile grows (because the same names keep showing up again and again on later pages.) I'd honestly kill for the ability to say "No DLC or software, has Mixed or Better reviews, and is under this price point" at the same time.